I just found all the links between two actual murders (Elisa Lam and Black Dahlia) and a story from Japan (Floating Water) to be very very strange. The US remake of the film ties it all together in a very spooky way... I love incidences of synchronicity.

"Cecilia... isn't fitting in and is spending too much time with an imaginary friend, named Natasha. A psychologist is recommended, but Dahlia declines and tells Cecilia to ignore Natasha. Although Veeck had said it was claimed, Dahlia discovers the Hello Kitty backpack in the laundry room's garbage. Cecilia later finds it in the elevator."

"and in the elevator, her mother's ghost braids her hair and comforts her"

"...momentarily horrified with a malfunction in the elevator, the weird behavior of his daughter"

From a description of Dark Water (Japan 2002)

"Intending to escape, she rushes into the elevator, fleeing apparently from the apparition of Mitsuko. But as the elevator door closes she sees that the figure pursuing her is in fact her own daughter..."

"Yoshimi sacrifices herself by staying on in the elevator to appease Mitsuko's spirit and pretending to be Mitsuko's mother. The elevator ascends and Ikuko follows, but when the doors open, a flood of murky brown water rushes out and nobody emerges."

I just found all the links between two actual murders (Elisa Lam and Black Dahlia) and a story from Japan (Floating Water) to be very very strange. The US remake of the film ties it all together in a very spooky way... I love incidences of synchronicity.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 33628542

i understand your fascination with that!

it fits too perfect to not being staged.

everything, from those real murders to movies,from name similarities to what is released to the public,from the tb outbreak nearby to the tb test with the mirror-name,even this really weird things we found out in the thread connects just perfect.

i want to know who did this and why.

and i suppose there is more than 2 people involved and the death of this poor girl is just the beginning of something else.

"Cecilia... isn't fitting in and is spending too much time with an imaginary friend, named Natasha. A psychologist is recommended, but Dahlia declines and tells Cecilia to ignore Natasha. Although Veeck had said it was claimed, Dahlia discovers the Hello Kitty backpack in the laundry room's garbage. Cecilia later finds it in the elevator."

"and in the elevator, her mother's ghost braids her hair and comforts her"

"...momentarily horrified with a malfunction in the elevator, the weird behavior of his daughter"

From a description of Dark Water (Japan 2002)

"Intending to escape, she rushes into the elevator, fleeing apparently from the apparition of Mitsuko. But as the elevator door closes she sees that the figure pursuing her is in fact her own daughter..."

"Yoshimi sacrifices herself by staying on in the elevator to appease Mitsuko's spirit and pretending to be Mitsuko's mother. The elevator ascends and Ikuko follows, but when the doors open, a flood of murky brown water rushes out and nobody emerges."

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 33628542

just think..what if.. these ghosts/projections mentioned in the film became reality for Elisa as these invisible men, made by this company doing augmented reality stuff ..would fit in the bigger picture as well..

She didnt appear to be afraid of anything, IMO. She looked to me like she was trying to play a joke on someone that never showed up. I hear it happening like this:"I'll meet you in the elevator, hold it for me""sure thing,heeheehee"She goes to the elevator to hold it, and pushes all the buttons so friends has to stand through the longest elevator ride ever. She is obviously waiting for someone, and without fear. She hops out playfully as if to say "gotcha" But the person she is waiting for did not show up in this vid clip. Sure she makes som eodd hand gestures, shuffles around a bit. But she didnt know she was on camera, and might have been having a few drinks to boot. I have been known to dance around to music in my head when i thought no one was looking. I admit her death is a curious thing, but i cant watch this video and think anything is going on here but a playful game of hide and seek. Her face shows no fear, and despite the low quality, when she hides in the corner she looks happy to me, almost smiling. You are all here trying to turn her game into a chilling account of a terrifying final moment but there isnt a lot here to support that.

she looks high, or out of it- can tell by the way she grabs for the wall to almost hold herself up when pressing buttons etc....she relies on the wall too much, as a subtance abuser i can tell you it's a common reactionn...

AC - Dark Water is a very eerie parallel. There was also mention somewhere on this thread that Elisa Lam's name means 'Blue Child'. This reminds me of Project Bluebird: (see Dr. Colin Ross's post under wanttoknowinfo)where 'unethical experiments are conducted by psychiatrists' who create Manchurian candidates. MK Ultra is also responsible for instances of biological warfare against the general population, hence the TB outbreak.

The four minute Youtube video on Elisa Lam in the elevator ends with the elevator door opening twice,and Elisa is gone.I get a very bad feeling from it. She was being stalked by someone and she knew it, and looks like she was incapacitated by drugs and not sure where to run.

I'm curious as to whether additional footage of the hotel hallways or front door around this time period is available, or if the killer took the stairs, maybe even posed as a hotel employee.The water tank lid must have been accessed and unlocked by someone. Nothing in her bloodstream- someone who knew how to kill a person -LSD? Insulin? The killer was involved in germ warfare.